Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-20
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tom OF the stose stairs leading
to the gallery. Here the terrible
struggle took place between the front OF
the crowd rushing from the main fool
and the leaders OF the throng which rush.
ed down the gallery stairs. The dead
| lay mostly in two opposing rows.
The feet OF those ia one row were close
to the feet of those of the other. One
row of heads was lying toward toe gallery
stairway, the other on the opposite side
of the hall. The faces of the dead
were distorted with agonized expressions.
The clothes were completed torn from
the bodies of some. A little girl, since
identified as Eva Marks, was found lying
at the bottom of the pile OF
dead. Her lower limbs were bare.
The upper part of her dress
was torn in shreds showing that size
fought hard for life. Isaac Levy, ven
cradle Hebrew, with white flowing beard
and hair was found among the
lar attendants at the performances
thought from the position in which his
body was found that Levy,
instead of fleeing alone when
the panic started, remained
to help his wife, so the old man was
brushed down by the rushing crowd and
stamped to death. His wife's body
lay opposite. She was woman in
the prime of life, wore bright
y-colored clothes aud quantities
of jewelry. Beside her lay little boy,
whose kpickerbockers and stockings wei e
torn IN shreds.
A man named Harris Goldberz says he
went TO the gallery of the hail accom-
panied by his wife and family. They all
sat together. The play was a melo-
drama called "the Spanish Gypsy Girl. ="
During the performance some boys,
in order to obtain q better view
of the stage, climbed up an exposed gas
pipe fastened along the wall. This
strained it and started leak. GoldberZ
placed a handkerchief over the leak.
Some one shouted, "Turn off the meter"
The shout was raised Simultaneous Y
with a cry of alarm from one of the act
ors on the stage. Then the people in
the gallery rose snd rushed headloDg
down the stairs. GoldberZ's wife was torn
away from him and was trampled to
death. His six-year old son jumped
upon the heads of the packed mass and
escaped Gy running over them.
The managers are not to blame for the
disaster. The passage from the hall to
the street entrance is ten feet wide where
the struggle occurred, and the doors
swing both ways. There are several
minor exits from the gallery, three be-
sides the staircase. The disaster arose
not from the Crowding of the passage,
but from the frantic efforts of the peo-
pie in the gallery to force their way
down the crowded stairs. The men
and women in front were driven into the
passage, where they met the excited oc-
cupants of the pit, and there was hope
less block.
CHURCHILL's LETTER.
LONDON, Jan. l9.-Lord Randolph
Churchill has written letter to Mel.
Saunderson, Loyalist member of parlia-
ment from the north division of Armagh,
in which he says: My attachment to the
Union and to the Ulster Loyalists has I'M
dergone no dimlrution.
AN IMPERIAL WEDDING.
LONDON, Jan. l9.-The marriage OF
Prince Roland Bonaparte to Princess
Letitia, daughter of Prince Jerome
Napoleon, will take place at Turin about
the middle of April. 1t is expected that
Cardinal Bonaparte will officiate, and q
large gathering of imperialists is looked
for. The couple will reside in England